Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-05-25
LOCAL AND OTHER SOrs.
scraps from she Notebook Of ths
SenstnePs Reporter.

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Sensineps Reporter.
Yesterdays quotation OF silver, so 94A
j. L. Wines returned yesterday from
Elko.
Bonanza stocks took a tumble sgair
yesterday.
Ross Wright came in yesterday from hii
ranch in Elko county.
Fl. Fenstermaker will plead in the Dis
trict Court this morning.
Mrs. Joseph WHEEL came up yesterday
from her ranch in Pine Valley.
Prof. Thomas Price arrived from San
Francisco by last evenings train.
Mrs. W. Fenstermaker and child ar
rived from Salt Lake City yesterday.
Mrs. Ed Wilcox and children re.
turned yesterday from San Francisco.
All petit jurors should be in attendance
in the District Court this morning ct 10
O'Clock.
The public schools at Virginia City will
hold a picnic at the old Bowers mansion
grounds.
The showers OF rain we have been
having for the past three days are
very refreshing.
The Sacramento Police Commissioners
have decided the officers shall wear uni
forms with helmets.
At Monterey, CAL, May II, the man
charged with an assault TO murder Han
sen was discharged.
Frank Barnett, a San Rafael (Cal.)
druggist, was arrested May IS for practic-
ing medicine without a diploma.
A Missouri man says he has known cat
fish TO leave the water and travel eight or
ten miles over land merely on speculation.
The Southern Pacific Company has Of
fered S99, 600 for the Santa Barbara Agri-
cultural Park buildings, for extensive
shops.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion pay their own fares and travelling ex-
penses on regular trains like ordinary pas
sengers.
Mrs. General Custer has tried it. and
recommends California as the sovereign
medicine for tired.out and overworked
women.
The ostrich farm on the Coronado
beach, near San Diego, CAL, has a pair of
African breeders and their progeny, max
ing l6 birds.
A tunnel ia to be driven to drain the
mines owned by the Manhattan Company
at Austin. 1t will cut the vein TOO feet
below the present workings.
A Philadelphia man is going to corral
sea breezes and carry them through pipes
to the city and sell them to the inhabit-
ants for 80 much q Whit.
John II. Rogers, the negro shot in San
Luis Obispc, Cal while resisting arrest
on Sunday evening last by a policeman, is
in a fair way to recover.
Suicide seems TO have been epidemic
among the cyprisns of Butte. Montana,
one having occurred in each OF the three
successive days Of last week.
James Cowie, formerly an employe at
the Eureka Con. works as an engineer,
has been stricken with paralysis, and one
side of his body is entirely p~aralyzed.
Secretary Fairchild proposes to reduce
the working day of his clerical force to six
hours. II the plan should prove a sue
cess the other Departments will adopt 1t.
At Sacramento, G. Silversmith. who
travels about the country vanishing pi-
anos, was arrested for shsmefully treating
q 12-yesr-old boy on the bank of Q creek
near Davisville,
At Portland, Oregon, May IS, Robert
B~urneys confessed to having set fire to a
barn for which Ellis Roberts was con-
victed and is serving a term of eight years
in the penitentisry.
S. F. Post: Mrs. James Brown Potter
has just closed a season of disaster. The
responsibility for her failure seems to be
divided between the badness of her acting
and the goodness OF her character.
Four brothers and a sister, all grown,
were confined in the MERGED county jail
on Tuesday on charges varying from
grand larceny TO battery. In the ante
room Of the jail sat the widowed mother
weeping for her hayward children. II
was the %Scroggins family.